Trump’s Defense
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🗓️ 12 June 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, June 12th. It's embarrassing enough when someone barges into your bathroom. |
| 0:04.5 | Well, what about when there are classified documents in it? |
| 0:07.3 | We start here. |
| 0:08.3 | This vicious persecution is a travesty of justice. |
| 0:15.2 | While Donald Trump defends himself, Washington goes in the panic mode. |
| 0:19.5 | They're trying their best to toe a party line that's increasingly difficult. |
| 0:23.2 | How allies are defending the first president to ever face a federal indictment. |
| 0:28.0 | A stretch of one of America's busiest highways collapses. |
| 0:31.8 | The stretch of I-95 will be shut down for an extended period of time. |
| 0:35.7 | Taking a Philadelphia where infrastructure was no match for a chemical fire. |
| 0:40.2 | And the White House says no, China's not building a base in Cuba, |
| 0:43.3 | because it's already got a base in Cuba. |
| 0:45.7 | You'll better. |
| 0:46.4 | What the Chinese want to do here is assert themselves. |
| 0:48.8 | Could we be staring down the barrel of Cuban missile crisis 2.0? |
| 0:54.9 | From ABC News, this is Start Here. |
| 0:57.7 | I'm Brad Milky. |
| 1:10.0 | During his term in office, President Trump was impeached twice. |
| 1:13.5 | Now is a former president. |
| 1:15.2 | He's been indicted twice. |
| 1:17.2 | Each time there's been a pretty simple playbook for Republicans defending him, |
| 1:20.8 | you bounce on whatever you can, whether it's the confusion surrounding diplomacy |
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